Schisandra chinensis (five flavor fruit) is a fruit-bearing vine. It isn’t typically used as a food, but it has been used for medicinal purposes throughout Asia and Russia for generations.

Think strange, exotic, and only used for medicine. The berry of Schisandra chinensis owes its name Wu Wei Zi (five flavored berry) to the fact that it is at once sweet, sour, salty, bitter and ...

Schisandra berry (Schisandra chinensis) is a pretty vine, also know as Omija, five-flavored fruit and magnolia berry. It has been cultivated for thousands of years and used as a beautifying tonic ...

This book, SCHISANDRA CHINENSIS: AN HERB OF NORTH EASTERN CHINA ORIGIN, provides an updated account on the following aspects: (1) plant origin and resources, cultivation and farming technology ...

Military studies published by the Soviet Union about a stimulant called Schisandra chinensis reported that some berries and seeds helped reduce the thirst, hunger, and fatigue of Nanai hunters.

The Schisandra plant, revered in age-old Chinese medicine, is celebrated for its multitude of health benefits derived from the various elements found in its berries. These benefits range from ...

The fruit of Schisandra chinensis – or Wu Wei Zi as it is known in its native China – is the latest in a slew of plant-based ingredients associated with Eastern medicine to have gained ...